Schools turn to surveillance tech to prevent Covid-19 spread: "We are very much interested in the automated tracking of students" privacy Article 720 words 6 votes
Facebook employees stage virtual walkout to protest US President Donald Trump posts facebook social media Article 894 words 16 votes
US President Donald Trump's executive order isn't only about Twitter; it's also attempting to ensure that Facebook won't change their own approach in the lead-up to the election facebook social media Article 2696 words 10 votes
Interview with Musk on his Twitter usage, selling off his possessions, and the historic upcoming launch Article 7 votes
America’s deadly obsession with intellectual property: Privatizing life-saving technology like vaccines and clean energy is bad both for the coronavirus and the climate crisis Article 1408 words 9 votes
Will Facebook’s oversight board actually hold the company accountable? facebook social media Article 581 words 5 votes
Here’s what an antitrust case against Google might look like: Two DOJ veterans lay out a roadmap for cracking down on the company’s digital advertising juggernaut google Article 717 words 4 votes
The need for software testing: Neil Ferguson's unstable epidemiologic model Article 319 words 10 votes
The confessions of Marcus "MalwareTech" Hutchins, the hacker who stopped WannaCry and was arrested by the FBI in 2017 internet security.cyber Article 13 662 words 33 votes
Facebook is helping to set up a new pro-tech advocacy group social media facebook Article 1180 words 6 votes
Welcome to the age of privacy nihilism privacy internet Article 2873 words, published Aug 23 2018 13 votes
The people who are keeping the internet running during COVID and how they're doing it internet Article 4171 words 11 votes
Utah Attorney General will suspend use of a massive surveillance system after reports that the founder of the company was once a participant in the KKK and was involved in a synagogue shooting Article 379 words 16 votes
Nearly two years after Europe's GDPR privacy law came into effect, supporters are frustrated by lack of enforcement, poor funding, limited staff resources and stalling tactics by the tech companies privacy Article 10 votes
In the debate over freedom versus control of the global network, China was largely correct, and the US was wrong internet Article 2800 words 6 votes
Magic Leap cuts half of jobs (about 1000) in major restructuring, plans to focus on enterprise business instead of consumer Article 7 votes
The devastating decline of Lee Holloway, one of the co-founders of Cloudflare Article 7186 words 24 votes
The coronavirus has changed the way Americans use the internet internet social media Article 855 words 9 votes
After 9/11, Americans gave up privacy for security. Will we make the same trade-off after COVID-19? privacy security Article 2040 words 21 votes
Thousands of Zoom cloud recordings have been exposed on the web because of the way Zoom names its recordings in unprotected AWS buckets security privacy amazon.web services Article 1179 words 24 votes
IT is the only department that touches everything. That puts a CIO in an ideal position to help the organization in its pursuit of new business models. Article 901 words 4 votes
Google will move its summer internship program to a virtual format this year google Article 405 words 7 votes
Why don't we just ban targeted advertising? privacy internet social media Article 3625 words 27 votes
Secret-sharing app Whisper left hundreds of millions of users’ intimate messages, locations, and other data exposed publicly on the web privacy social media Article 1293 words 9 votes
Brands can now purchase an ad in the #2 slot of Reddit's "Trending" sections in the Popular page and Search dropdown social media Article 617 words 26 votes
Cameo is the logical endpoint of modern celebrity-obsessed culture and interaction—a perfect storm of convenience, access, and affordability social media Article 1606 words 13 votes
EU Commission to staff: Switch to Signal messaging app security Article 619 words, published Feb 20 2020 14 votes
Twitter is suspending 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts, citing ‘platform manipulation’ social media Article 519 words 19 votes
I spoke out against sexual harassment at Uber. The aftermath was more terrifying than anything I faced before privacy Article published Feb 17 2020 16 votes